Archtop Meeting Germany 2012 - Heeres Guitars
Archtop Meeting Germany 2012 - Heeres Guitars
Archtop Meeting Germany 2012 - Heeres Guitars
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<strong>Archtop</strong> <strong>Meeting</strong> <strong>Germany</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
by Richard <strong>Heeres</strong><br />
Schloss Almosshof<br />
Last March, the 3rd <strong>Archtop</strong> <strong>Meeting</strong> <strong>Germany</strong><br />
was held. This time the biennial festival was<br />
held at Schloss Almosshof, a stately home in<br />
Nürnberg in the south of <strong>Germany</strong>.<br />
Author Richard <strong>Heeres</strong> showing one of his beautiful archtops.<br />
He’s making nylon string jazz models also.<br />
The idea of these meetings is to bring together players,<br />
makers and aficionados of the archtop guitar. This<br />
years edition was packed with concerts by (among others)<br />
David Plate, Alex Jung and the Philipp Stauber<br />
trio, and workshops by Thomas Brendgen-<br />
Mönkemeier, Ali Claudi and Thomas Reussenzehn,<br />
and an exhibition which was very well visited.<br />
The driving force behind the meetings is Andreas Polte.<br />
An avid fan of the archtop guitar, Andreas has a site<br />
with just about anything you could want to know about<br />
the German jazz (guitar) scene. For more, visit<br />
http://www.archtop-germany.de. In German, but with<br />
lots of pictures.<br />
Thomas Brendgens-Mönkemeyer gave a fascinating workshop<br />
about the “solo jazz guitarist on stage - a survival artist”.<br />
Stefan Hahl and his Birelli Lagrene model<br />
Philipp Stauber and David Plate dueling on stage<br />
Page 128 Just Jazz Guitar n August <strong>2012</strong>
Joe Striebel with some of his archtops<br />
Thomas Reussenzehn showing his <strong>Archtop</strong> Tube<br />
Stefan Sonntag with 3 of his 6 beauties that he brought.
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